[WiX-users] Fwd: bootstrapper on WinNT
Hello WiX users, we generated with WiX 3.7 a bootstrapper exe, and tried it on XP, Win7 and it works fine. But on an NT (4.0) machine we get ... is not a valid NT application error when starting the exe. Is thre a previous version of WiX that supports WinNT, or do we have to write an own bootstrapper? Thanks in advance, Franky -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Condition for Upgrading...
Major upgrades have a property that gets set when the older version is found. To use Bob's example: !- Major upgrade - Upgrade Id=$(var.UpgradeCode) UpgradeVersion Minimum=$(var.ProductVersion) OnlyDetect=yes Property=NEWERVERSIONDETECTED / UpgradeVersion Minimum=1.0.0 IncludeMinimum=yes Maximum=$(var.ProductVersion) IncludeMaximum=no Property=OLDERVERSIONBEINGUPGRADED / /Upgrade OLDERVERSIONBEINGUPGRADED can be used as your condition. If you're referring to an installed product that is being uninstalled and upgrades, use UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE as the condition. Phil -Original Message- From: StevenOgilvie [mailto:sogil...@msn.com] Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 11:43 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Condition for Upgrading... Hi folks, I am confused, I looked within the WIX userlist and Googled this but I seem to have mixed results... I want to run a custom action on an Upgrade only.. I currently have it as: Custom Action=CA_CheckIfServerOnLine After=InstallInitializeNOT Installed AND SERVER_INSTALL=0/Custom But in some cases it is being run on a fresh install :( I am using the MajorUpgrade element for upgrades... Thanks, Steve -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Condition-for- Upgrading-tp7585775.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] Build error in VS 2010
Hi, I'm new to VS 2010 and WiX so probably something is not configured correctly. Here's the build error: Error 1 The extension 'C:\a-release\Setup\Setup\WixSystemToolsExtension' could not be loaded because of the following reason: Could not load file or assembly 'file:///C:\a-release\Setup\Setup\WixSystemToolsExtension' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. candle.exe 0 1 Setup Though it may be a path problem so added this: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\WiX Toolset v3.7\bin;' without success. Candle.exe is in that folder. Thanks for any advice, Gary -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] When are elevated permissions dropped?
To illustrate a problem I'm having with a real project, I created a test script that runs a custom action that requires elevated privileges during uninstalls. If I configure it to run before InstallFinalize (deferred, no impersonation), the uninstall fails to complete. The event log says A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected and indicates the program being called by the custom action. Changing it to run after DeleteServices works. I think that this indicates a problem with permissions. Shouldn't the elevated permissions remain before InstallFinalize? Here's the script. The custom actions and the install execute sequence are the interesting parts: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? Wix xmlns=http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi; Product Id=* Name=Foo2 Language=1033 Version=1.0.0.0 Manufacturer=Foo UpgradeCode=55369FED-96BF-4D95-99E4-E7D746A54C62 Package InstallerVersion=200 Compressed=yes InstallScope=perMachine / MajorUpgrade DowngradeErrorMessage=A newer version of [ProductName] is already installed. / MediaTemplate / Condition Message=You need to be an administrator to install this product.Privileged/Condition Feature Id=ProductFeature Title=FooInstaller Level=1 ComponentGroupRef Id=ProductComponents / /Feature CustomAction Id=AddEndpoint Execute=deferred Directory=INSTALLFOLDER ExeCommand=[SystemFolder]netsh.exe http add urlacl url=http://+:49260/Foo2/ user=\Everyone Impersonate=no Return=check / CustomAction Id=DeleteEndpoint Execute=deferred Directory=INSTALLFOLDER ExeCommand=[SystemFolder]netsh.exe http delete urlacl url=http://+:49260/Foo2/; Impersonate=no Return=check / InstallExecuteSequence !-- Configure http ports -- Custom Action=AddEndpoint Before=InstallFinalize![CDATA[NOT Installed]]/Custom Custom Action=DeleteEndpoint Before=InstallFinalize![CDATA[Installed AND NOT REINSTALL]]/Custom /InstallExecuteSequence /Product Fragment Directory Id=TARGETDIR Name=SourceDir Directory Id=ProgramFilesFolder Directory Id=INSTALLFOLDER Name=Foo2 / /Directory /Directory /Fragment Fragment ComponentGroup Id=ProductComponents Directory=INSTALLFOLDER Component Id=ProductComponent File Id=HelloFile Name=HelloFile.txt Source=hello.txt / /Component /ComponentGroup /Fragment /Wix -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] When are elevated permissions dropped?
It's more likely related to something that is no longer correct during the uninstall. Between DeleteServices and InstallFinalize the items that are uninstalled include registry entries, type libraries, environment variables, files, and folders. Deferred and before InstallFinalize basically means that nothing of your product is left behind, so I would look for something your script requires that is no longer there. Permissions don't change in that area of the uninstall. Phil -Original Message- From: Brownfield, Cory [mailto:cbrownfi...@aeci.org] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 7:37 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] When are elevated permissions dropped? To illustrate a problem I'm having with a real project, I created a test script that runs a custom action that requires elevated privileges during uninstalls. If I configure it to run before InstallFinalize (deferred, no impersonation), the uninstall fails to complete. The event log says A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected and indicates the program being called by the custom action. Changing it to run after DeleteServices works. I think that this indicates a problem with permissions. Shouldn't the elevated permissions remain before InstallFinalize? Here's the script. The custom actions and the install execute sequence are the interesting parts: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? Wix xmlns=http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi; Product Id=* Name=Foo2 Language=1033 Version=1.0.0.0 Manufacturer=Foo UpgradeCode=55369FED-96BF-4D95-99E4-E7D746A54C62 Package InstallerVersion=200 Compressed=yes InstallScope=perMachine / MajorUpgrade DowngradeErrorMessage=A newer version of [ProductName] is already installed. / MediaTemplate / Condition Message=You need to be an administrator to install this product.Privileged/Condition Feature Id=ProductFeature Title=FooInstaller Level=1 ComponentGroupRef Id=ProductComponents / /Feature CustomAction Id=AddEndpoint Execute=deferred Directory=INSTALLFOLDER ExeCommand=[SystemFolder]netsh.exe http add urlacl url=http://+:49260/Foo2/ user=\Everyone Impersonate=no Return=check / CustomAction Id=DeleteEndpoint Execute=deferred Directory=INSTALLFOLDER ExeCommand=[SystemFolder]netsh.exe http delete urlacl url=http://+:49260/Foo2/; Impersonate=no Return=check / InstallExecuteSequence !-- Configure http ports -- Custom Action=AddEndpoint Before=InstallFinalize![CDATA[NOT Installed]]/Custom Custom Action=DeleteEndpoint Before=InstallFinalize![CDATA[Installed AND NOT REINSTALL]]/Custom /InstallExecuteSequence /Product Fragment Directory Id=TARGETDIR Name=SourceDir Directory Id=ProgramFilesFolder Directory Id=INSTALLFOLDER Name=Foo2 / /Directory /Directory /Fragment Fragment ComponentGroup Id=ProductComponents Directory=INSTALLFOLDER Component Id=ProductComponent File Id=HelloFile Name=HelloFile.txt Source=hello.txt / /Component /ComponentGroup /Fragment /Wix -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] Changinf output direcoty of MSI
Hi, Is there any way to change the output directory of an MSI? I have it building to my custom folder, however its builds like so : CustomFolder\en-US\Setup.msi I would like it to build to : CustomFolder\Setup.msi Is this possible? Thanks Natalie -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Fwd: bootstrapper on WinNT
Ack, NT 4.0 is a bit dead these days. Odds are it's an issue with the engine itself using newer API's. If you don't need all of the new features within Wix, you could use an older branch. If you need the newer features on the older OS, you'd have to back port all the non-compatible API's. I don't have any docs which would outline when NT4 was de-supported with Wix, but maybe Rob could point you tin the right direction. -Original Message- From: Frank Gábor [mailto:frank.ga...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 4:05 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Fwd: bootstrapper on WinNT Hello WiX users, we generated with WiX 3.7 a bootstrapper exe, and tried it on XP, Win7 and it works fine. But on an NT (4.0) machine we get ... is not a valid NT application error when starting the exe. Is thre a previous version of WiX that supports WinNT, or do we have to write an own bootstrapper? Thanks in advance, Franky -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Condition for Upgrading... [P]
Classification: Public Thanks very much Phil I will do a: Custom Action=CA_CheckIfServerOnLine After=InstallInitializeOLDERVERSIONBEINGUPGRADED OR UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE AND SERVER_INSTALL=0/Custom Thanks, Steve -Original Message- From: Phil Wilson [mailto:phil.wil...@mvps.org] Sent: May-10-13 10:25 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Condition for Upgrading... Major upgrades have a property that gets set when the older version is found. To use Bob's example: !- Major upgrade - Upgrade Id=$(var.UpgradeCode) UpgradeVersion Minimum=$(var.ProductVersion) OnlyDetect=yes Property=NEWERVERSIONDETECTED / UpgradeVersion Minimum=1.0.0 IncludeMinimum=yes Maximum=$(var.ProductVersion) IncludeMaximum=no Property=OLDERVERSIONBEINGUPGRADED / /Upgrade OLDERVERSIONBEINGUPGRADED can be used as your condition. If you're referring to an installed product that is being uninstalled and upgrades, use UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE as the condition. Phil -Original Message- From: StevenOgilvie [mailto:sogil...@msn.com] Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 11:43 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Condition for Upgrading... Hi folks, I am confused, I looked within the WIX userlist and Googled this but I seem to have mixed results... I want to run a custom action on an Upgrade only.. I currently have it as: Custom Action=CA_CheckIfServerOnLine After=InstallInitializeNOT Installed AND SERVER_INSTALL=0/Custom But in some cases it is being run on a fresh install :( I am using the MajorUpgrade element for upgrades... Thanks, Steve -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Condition-for- Upgrading-tp7585775.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users This message has been marked as Public by Steven Ogilvie on May-10-13 12:51:02 PM. The above classification labels were added to the message by TITUS Message Classification. For more information visit www.titus.com. -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Condition for Upgrading... [P]
Classification: Public Actually this turned out to work for me: Custom Action=CA_CheckIfServerOnLine After=InstallInitializeWIX_UPGRADE_DETECTED AND SERVER_INSTALL=0/Custom -Original Message- From: Steven Ogilvie [mailto:steven.ogil...@titus.com] Sent: May-10-13 12:51 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Condition for Upgrading... [P] Classification: Public Thanks very much Phil I will do a: Custom Action=CA_CheckIfServerOnLine After=InstallInitializeOLDERVERSIONBEINGUPGRADED OR UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE AND SERVER_INSTALL=0/Custom Thanks, Steve -Original Message- From: Phil Wilson [mailto:phil.wil...@mvps.org] Sent: May-10-13 10:25 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Condition for Upgrading... Major upgrades have a property that gets set when the older version is found. To use Bob's example: !- Major upgrade - Upgrade Id=$(var.UpgradeCode) UpgradeVersion Minimum=$(var.ProductVersion) OnlyDetect=yes Property=NEWERVERSIONDETECTED / UpgradeVersion Minimum=1.0.0 IncludeMinimum=yes Maximum=$(var.ProductVersion) IncludeMaximum=no Property=OLDERVERSIONBEINGUPGRADED / /Upgrade OLDERVERSIONBEINGUPGRADED can be used as your condition. If you're referring to an installed product that is being uninstalled and upgrades, use UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE as the condition. Phil -Original Message- From: StevenOgilvie [mailto:sogil...@msn.com] Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 11:43 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Condition for Upgrading... Hi folks, I am confused, I looked within the WIX userlist and Googled this but I seem to have mixed results... I want to run a custom action on an Upgrade only.. I currently have it as: Custom Action=CA_CheckIfServerOnLine After=InstallInitializeNOT Installed AND SERVER_INSTALL=0/Custom But in some cases it is being run on a fresh install :( I am using the MajorUpgrade element for upgrades... Thanks, Steve -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Condition-for- Upgrading-tp7585775.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users This message has been marked as Public by Steven Ogilvie on May-10-13 12:51:02 PM. The above classification labels were added to the message by TITUS Message Classification. For more information visit www.titus.com. -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users This message has been marked as Public by Steven Ogilvie on May-10-13 2:38:14 PM. The above classification labels were added to the message by TITUS Message Classification. For more information visit www.titus.com. -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] Burn Console Output
Hi All, I was wondering if there was a way to output text to the console (like error messages) when running a BA in silent mode? If not, is there some other way I can alert a user to an error without loading the UI? Thanks, Nick -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Registering ComPlus and Assigning a User
Based on the documentataion looks like this is the clsid of the com class -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Registering-ComPlus-and-Assigning-a-User-tp7585575p7585793.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] When are elevated permissions dropped?
The script included in my email doesn't work on Windows 7. It's pretty simple (no environment variables, etc.). It produces an MSI that can be installed but not uninstalled. -Original Message- From: Phil Wilson [mailto:phil.wil...@mvps.org] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 10:22 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] When are elevated permissions dropped? It's more likely related to something that is no longer correct during the uninstall. Between DeleteServices and InstallFinalize the items that are uninstalled include registry entries, type libraries, environment variables, files, and folders. Deferred and before InstallFinalize basically means that nothing of your product is left behind, so I would look for something your script requires that is no longer there. Permissions don't change in that area of the uninstall. Phil -Original Message- From: Brownfield, Cory [mailto:cbrownfi...@aeci.org] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 7:37 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] When are elevated permissions dropped? To illustrate a problem I'm having with a real project, I created a test script that runs a custom action that requires elevated privileges during uninstalls. If I configure it to run before InstallFinalize (deferred, no impersonation), the uninstall fails to complete. The event log says A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected and indicates the program being called by the custom action. Changing it to run after DeleteServices works. I think that this indicates a problem with permissions. Shouldn't the elevated permissions remain before InstallFinalize? Here's the script. The custom actions and the install execute sequence are the interesting parts: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? Wix xmlns=http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi; Product Id=* Name=Foo2 Language=1033 Version=1.0.0.0 Manufacturer=Foo UpgradeCode=55369FED-96BF-4D95-99E4-E7D746A54C62 Package InstallerVersion=200 Compressed=yes InstallScope=perMachine / MajorUpgrade DowngradeErrorMessage=A newer version of [ProductName] is already installed. / MediaTemplate / Condition Message=You need to be an administrator to install this product.Privileged/Condition Feature Id=ProductFeature Title=FooInstaller Level=1 ComponentGroupRef Id=ProductComponents / /Feature CustomAction Id=AddEndpoint Execute=deferred Directory=INSTALLFOLDER ExeCommand=[SystemFolder]netsh.exe http add urlacl url=http://+:49260/Foo2/ user=\Everyone Impersonate=no Return=check / CustomAction Id=DeleteEndpoint Execute=deferred Directory=INSTALLFOLDER ExeCommand=[SystemFolder]netsh.exe http delete urlacl url=http://+:49260/Foo2/; Impersonate=no Return=check / InstallExecuteSequence !-- Configure http ports -- Custom Action=AddEndpoint Before=InstallFinalize![CDATA[NOT Installed]]/Custom Custom Action=DeleteEndpoint Before=InstallFinalize![CDATA[Installed AND NOT REINSTALL]]/Custom /InstallExecuteSequence /Product Fragment Directory Id=TARGETDIR Name=SourceDir Directory Id=ProgramFilesFolder Directory Id=INSTALLFOLDER Name=Foo2 / /Directory /Directory /Fragment Fragment ComponentGroup Id=ProductComponents Directory=INSTALLFOLDER Component Id=ProductComponent File Id=HelloFile Name=HelloFile.txt Source=hello.txt / /Component /ComponentGroup /Fragment /Wix -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Re: [WiX-users] When are elevated permissions dropped?
Ok, I missed that. You mean the run of netsh.exe? That's not what is usually referred to as a script (as in vbscript etc). Your INSTALLFOLDER won't exist by the time you run that custom action because it's after RemoveFolders. I don't think that should make a difference, but it's possible that Windows does something like setting the executable's working directory to that folder. It looks like you need a verbose log. Experimentally you can keep moving the custom action down the sequence until it starts failing. Or try after RemoveFolders to see if that's where it starts to fail. Phil -Original Message- From: Brownfield, Cory [mailto:cbrownfi...@aeci.org] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 12:31 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] When are elevated permissions dropped? The script included in my email doesn't work on Windows 7. It's pretty simple (no environment variables, etc.). It produces an MSI that can be installed but not uninstalled. -Original Message- From: Phil Wilson [mailto:phil.wil...@mvps.org] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 10:22 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] When are elevated permissions dropped? It's more likely related to something that is no longer correct during the uninstall. Between DeleteServices and InstallFinalize the items that are uninstalled include registry entries, type libraries, environment variables, files, and folders. Deferred and before InstallFinalize basically means that nothing of your product is left behind, so I would look for something your script requires that is no longer there. Permissions don't change in that area of the uninstall. Phil -Original Message- From: Brownfield, Cory [mailto:cbrownfi...@aeci.org] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 7:37 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] When are elevated permissions dropped? To illustrate a problem I'm having with a real project, I created a test script that runs a custom action that requires elevated privileges during uninstalls. If I configure it to run before InstallFinalize (deferred, no impersonation), the uninstall fails to complete. The event log says A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected and indicates the program being called by the custom action. Changing it to run after DeleteServices works. I think that this indicates a problem with permissions. Shouldn't the elevated permissions remain before InstallFinalize? Here's the script. The custom actions and the install execute sequence are the interesting parts: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? Wix xmlns=http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi; Product Id=* Name=Foo2 Language=1033 Version=1.0.0.0 Manufacturer=Foo UpgradeCode=55369FED-96BF-4D95-99E4-E7D746A54C62 Package InstallerVersion=200 Compressed=yes InstallScope=perMachine / MajorUpgrade DowngradeErrorMessage=A newer version of [ProductName] is already installed. / MediaTemplate / Condition Message=You need to be an administrator to install this product.Privileged/Condition Feature Id=ProductFeature Title=FooInstaller Level=1 ComponentGroupRef Id=ProductComponents / /Feature CustomAction Id=AddEndpoint Execute=deferred Directory=INSTALLFOLDER ExeCommand=[SystemFolder]netsh.exe http add urlacl url=http://+:49260/Foo2/ user=\Everyone Impersonate=no Return=check / CustomAction Id=DeleteEndpoint Execute=deferred Directory=INSTALLFOLDER ExeCommand=[SystemFolder]netsh.exe http delete urlacl url=http://+:49260/Foo2/; Impersonate=no Return=check / InstallExecuteSequence !-- Configure http ports -- Custom Action=AddEndpoint Before=InstallFinalize![CDATA[NOT Installed]]/Custom Custom Action=DeleteEndpoint Before=InstallFinalize![CDATA[Installed AND NOT REINSTALL]]/Custom /InstallExecuteSequence /Product Fragment Directory Id=TARGETDIR Name=SourceDir Directory Id=ProgramFilesFolder Directory Id=INSTALLFOLDER Name=Foo2 / /Directory /Directory /Fragment Fragment ComponentGroup Id=ProductComponents Directory=INSTALLFOLDER Component Id=ProductComponent File Id=HelloFile Name=HelloFile.txt Source=hello.txt / /Component /ComponentGroup /Fragment /Wix -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed
[WiX-users] Help Menu for Custom MBA
Hi All, Is there anything special I need to do to create a command line help menu in my custom managed bootstrapper application? Bootstrapper.Command.GetCommandLineArgs() seems to ignore /?, /h, and /help completely... Thanks, Nick Nicholas Miller (Network Administrator) LiveTechnology Holdings, Inc. LiveTechnology Park: 16 Sterling Lake Rd, Tuxedo Park, NY 10987 Phone: 845.351.5100 Direct: 845.535.6205 Fax: 845.351.5102 Email: nmil...@livetechnology.commailto:nmil...@livetechnology.com Website: www.LiveTechnology.comhttp://www.livetechnology.com/ -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Help Menu for Custom MBA
Yes, because with Burn the standard command line args are parsed by the engine, and you'll find in your BootstrapperApplication.Command.Action the launch action equal to Help (or Install, Uninstall, Modify, Repair...), and in BootstrapperApplication.Command.Display the state of UI that is requested (Full, Passive...).In the CommandLine you'll find only your custom command line args that you have parse yourself. From: nmil...@livetechnology.com To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 21:16:52 + Subject: [WiX-users] Help Menu for Custom MBA Hi All, Is there anything special I need to do to create a command line help menu in my custom managed bootstrapper application? Bootstrapper.Command.GetCommandLineArgs() seems to ignore /?, /h, and /help completely... Thanks, Nick Nicholas Miller (Network Administrator) LiveTechnology Holdings, Inc. LiveTechnology Park: 16 Sterling Lake Rd, Tuxedo Park, NY 10987 Phone: 845.351.5100 Direct: 845.535.6205 Fax: 845.351.5102 Email: nmil...@livetechnology.commailto:nmil...@livetechnology.com Website: www.LiveTechnology.comhttp://www.livetechnology.com/ -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Help Menu for Custom MBA
Awesome, thanks! -Original Message- From: Marco Tognacci [mailto:mark...@live.it] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 5:31 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Help Menu for Custom MBA Yes, because with Burn the standard command line args are parsed by the engine, and you'll find in your BootstrapperApplication.Command.Action the launch action equal to Help (or Install, Uninstall, Modify, Repair...), and in BootstrapperApplication.Command.Display the state of UI that is requested (Full, Passive...).In the CommandLine you'll find only your custom command line args that you have parse yourself. From: nmil...@livetechnology.com To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 21:16:52 + Subject: [WiX-users] Help Menu for Custom MBA Hi All, Is there anything special I need to do to create a command line help menu in my custom managed bootstrapper application? Bootstrapper.Command.GetCommandLineArgs() seems to ignore /?, /h, and /help completely... Thanks, Nick Nicholas Miller (Network Administrator) LiveTechnology Holdings, Inc. LiveTechnology Park: 16 Sterling Lake Rd, Tuxedo Park, NY 10987 Phone: 845.351.5100 Direct: 845.535.6205 Fax: 845.351.5102 Email: nmil...@livetechnology.commailto:nmil...@livetechnology.com Website: www.LiveTechnology.comhttp://www.livetechnology.com/ -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] .Net 3.5 SP1 using WiX Burn
Hi All, I need to install .Net3.5 SP1 as a prerequiste if not met using Wix. I have written code using Wix Burn. My plan is to include dotNetFx35setup.exe - to be a part of the package(in package) and i have specified it in ExePackage:SourceFile. If .net 3.5 is not installed, i execute dotNetFx35setup.exe followed by invoking MSI. Can you please review the below code and answer the 5 queries i have Wix xmlns=http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi; xmlns:util=http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UtilExtension; Bundle Name=Net35SPFinalInstaller Version=1.0.0.0 Manufacturer=Microsoft UpgradeCode=05b8ae50-bf21-4842-85b2-2bb7f2a2deff BootstrapperApplicationRef Id=WixStandardBootstrapperApplication.RtfLicense /BootstrapperApplicationRef Chain ExePackage Id=Netfx35 Cache=no Compressed=yes PerMachine=yes Permanent=yes Vital=yes SourceFile=C:\WixProto\dotNetFx35setup.exe InstallCondition=NOT Netfx35Version OR (Netfx35Version lt; v3.5.30729.1) DetectCondition=Netfx35Version AND (Netfx35Version gt;= v3.5.30729.1) ExitCode Value =3010 Behavior=forceReboot / /ExePackage MsiPackage SourceFile=C:\WixProto\WixFinalInstaller.msi Id=MsiPackage Cache=yes Visible=yes DisplayInternalUI=yes / /Chain /Bundle Fragment util:RegistrySearch Root=HKLM Key=SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Net Framework Setup\NDP\v3.5 Value=Version Variable=Netfx35Version / /Fragment /Wix Following are my questions a) When should i specify payload elements. b) When and why should i specify Bootstrapper.config file under Payload c) Once i specify dotNetFx35setup.exe as the ExePackage::SourceFile, is it internally contained inside my bootstrapper.exe d) Can i change the output type of my bootstrapper project(Visual studio 2012) to an msi file. I have seen that option in Visual studio properties.But it gives the error This installation package cannot be opened.Contact the application vendor to verify that it a valid Windows Installer pacakge. e) Simlar like a MSI Project, in Bootstrapper project can we show the messgebox/dialog if some conditions are not satisfied and cancel the installation process. -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] Upgrade doesn't overwrite all files
Hi, I ran into an issue that one of dll's in an upgrade wasn't copied to the destination folder. I examined the msi with LessMSI, the files were packaged correctly. I reviewed the File Versioning Rules at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368599(VS.85).aspx. They didn't solve my problem. Did anyone encounter similar problem and may have some idea of where to look next? Thanks, Candy -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade doesn't overwrite all files
Make sure the file version # is updated in file version under assembly info within assembly info if you are using VS 2010 and above. Also, use Orca to view the properties of an MSI installer. J On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Candy Chiu candy.chiu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I ran into an issue that one of dll's in an upgrade wasn't copied to the destination folder. I examined the msi with LessMSI, the files were packaged correctly. I reviewed the File Versioning Rules at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368599(VS.85).aspx. They didn't solve my problem. Did anyone encounter similar problem and may have some idea of where to look next? Thanks, Candy -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel. -- Anonymous -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Burn Console Output
Not sure I've ever been able to get a Windows subsystem app to connect back to the console that launched it. It'd be cool if you figured out how to do that. On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Nick Miller nmil...@livetechnology.comwrote: Hi All, I was wondering if there was a way to output text to the console (like error messages) when running a BA in silent mode? If not, is there some other way I can alert a user to an error without loading the UI? Thanks, Nick -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Changinf output direcoty of MSI
Yes but you're .wxl and build language needs to be marked neutral... and you won't be able to correctly build multiple languages of your MSI. I think I recently made these tweaks to the WiX build process when I fixed all the WixDistribution.wxl stuff. You might look at that. On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Natalie Carr natalie.c...@measuresoft.comwrote: Hi, Is there any way to change the output directory of an MSI? I have it building to my custom folder, however its builds like so : CustomFolder\en-US\Setup.msi I would like it to build to : CustomFolder\Setup.msi Is this possible? Thanks Natalie -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Build error in VS 2010
candle.exe has a lot of dependencies too. Did you add all of them? On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Gary Larsen gary.lar...@envisn.com wrote: Hi, I'm new to VS 2010 and WiX so probably something is not configured correctly. Here's the build error: Error 1 The extension 'C:\a-release\Setup\Setup\WixSystemToolsExtension' could not be loaded because of the following reason: Could not load file or assembly 'file:///C:\a-release\Setup\Setup\WixSystemToolsExtension' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. candle.exe 0 1 Setup Though it may be a path problem so added this: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\WiX Toolset v3.7\bin;' without success. Candle.exe is in that folder. Thanks for any advice, Gary -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] How to modify MSI from the custom bootstrapper
1. Personally, I think moving all of the UI from the MSI to the Bundle is going to be the best option going forward. MSI UI is not advancing and if you're in Bundle it's better to have a seamless user experience that Burn can offer. This is obviously just my opinion. 2. I do think Burn should correctly support showing MSI internal UI from the Bundle for those people that do not share my opinion above. smile/ It is obviously more complicated than any of us expected and still needs more work. So, bugs should be filed when things don't work (and I think you've done that once or twice. Thank you.). The only real question is who is going to fix the bugs. Since I hold opinion #1 fixing those bugs is not high on my personal list of things to fix in the WiX toolset. That means if you're counting on me to personally fix those bugs in my volunteer hours on the WiX toolset, you might be waiting for a while. But I certainly wouldn't discourage anyone else from taking the bugs and working with the wix-devs to implement proper fixes (we can't take hacks or partial solutions that destabilize Burn, of course). On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Christopher West C christopher.c.w...@ericsson.com wrote: OK, thank you for the information. I would like to get your thoughts on the following. For future releases of Wix(Wix 3.8?), do you envision Burn being updated to fully support DisplayInternalUI? Or is the real intent of Burn that the UI of the MSI should not be used, and that the UI should be created outside of the MSI and displayed to the user before the chained MSI's? And that any user inputs made in the previously displayed UI's that are needed during the MSI execution should then be passed into the MSI's as properties? -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 9:40 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to modify MSI from the custom bootstrapper Ahh, yeah, that makes sense. I think this is another of those cases like the progress bar not showing correctly for DisplayInternalUI='yes' on MsiPackages that isn't handled well in Burn today. As you've undoubtedly noted showing internal UI from Burn was not a high priority item in the initial release of Burn. The DisplayInternalUI was added late and covers only the most basic of scenarios. I think more work is necessary in Burn to really get DisplayInternalUI fully supported. On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Christopher West C christopher.c.w...@ericsson.com wrote: In OnPlanPackageBegin, the value of the State is already set to Present when the event is invoked. So the question is, what value do I change it to in order to have the MSI run and for the MSI's UI to be displayed? I tried setting the State to RequestState.Repair, and while this did run the MSI, the MSI's UI did not display. This made sense to me because if I install the MSI directly and run repair from ARP, the MSI's UI does not display. So the question is, what State value do I set in OnPlanPackageBegin to run the previously installed MSI and for the MSI's UI to display? Again, note that if I install the .msi directly, I am able to display the MSI's UI from the ARP via the change button. -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 12:07 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to modify MSI from the custom bootstrapper If you want to force a package to run during modify, change the requested state in OnPlanPackageBegin(). The default will be a no-op. On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Christopher West C christopher.c.w...@ericsson.com wrote: I would like to have my custom bootstrapper allow for an installed MSI to be modified via the MSI's UI. If I install the .msi directly, I am able to do this from the ARP via the change button. I tried to accomplish this same behavior via my custom bootstrapper. In my custom bootstrapper, I tried calling the Bootstrapper.Engine.Plan(LaunchAction.Modify), but the MSI was not ran. The relevant section of the log file is below. [9A00:6CA8][2013-05-08T19:34:40]i200: Plan begin, 2 packages, action: Modify [9A00:6CA8][2013-05-08T19:34:40]w321: Skipping dependency registration on package with no dependency providers: Netfx4Full [9A00:6CA8][2013-05-08T19:34:40]i201: Planned package: Netfx4Full, state: Present, default requested: Present, ba requested: Present, execute: None, rollback: None, cache: No, uncache: No, dependency: None [9A00:6CA8][2013-05-08T19:34:40]i201: Planned package: CBADummyInstallerPackageId, state: Present, default requested: Present, ba requested: Present, execute: None, rollback: None, cache: No, uncache: No, dependency: Register [9A00:6CA8][2013-05-08T19:34:40]i299:
Re: [WiX-users] When are elevated permissions dropped?
See http://damianblog.com/2008/02/21/configuring-http-namespace-reservations-on-vista-using-wix/ All of the custom actions in that post are important. Note where they are scheduled to execute. -- Edwin On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Brownfield, Cory cbrownfi...@aeci.orgwrote: To illustrate a problem I'm having with a real project, I created a test script that runs a custom action that requires elevated privileges during uninstalls. If I configure it to run before InstallFinalize (deferred, no impersonation), the uninstall fails to complete. The event log says A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected and indicates the program being called by the custom action. Changing it to run after DeleteServices works. I think that this indicates a problem with permissions. Shouldn't the elevated permissions remain before InstallFinalize? Here's the script. The custom actions and the install execute sequence are the interesting parts: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? Wix xmlns=http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi; Product Id=* Name=Foo2 Language=1033 Version=1.0.0.0 Manufacturer=Foo UpgradeCode=55369FED-96BF-4D95-99E4-E7D746A54C62 Package InstallerVersion=200 Compressed=yes InstallScope=perMachine / MajorUpgrade DowngradeErrorMessage=A newer version of [ProductName] is already installed. / MediaTemplate / Condition Message=You need to be an administrator to install this product.Privileged/Condition Feature Id=ProductFeature Title=FooInstaller Level=1 ComponentGroupRef Id=ProductComponents / /Feature CustomAction Id=AddEndpoint Execute=deferred Directory=INSTALLFOLDER ExeCommand=[SystemFolder]netsh.exe http add urlacl url=http://+:49260/Foo2/ user=\Everyone Impersonate=no Return=check / CustomAction Id=DeleteEndpoint Execute=deferred Directory=INSTALLFOLDER ExeCommand=[SystemFolder]netsh.exe http delete urlacl url=http://+:49260/Foo2/; Impersonate=no Return=check / InstallExecuteSequence !-- Configure http ports -- Custom Action=AddEndpoint Before=InstallFinalize![CDATA[NOT Installed]]/Custom Custom Action=DeleteEndpoint Before=InstallFinalize![CDATA[Installed AND NOT REINSTALL]]/Custom /InstallExecuteSequence /Product Fragment Directory Id=TARGETDIR Name=SourceDir Directory Id=ProgramFilesFolder Directory Id=INSTALLFOLDER Name=Foo2 / /Directory /Directory /Fragment Fragment ComponentGroup Id=ProductComponents Directory=INSTALLFOLDER Component Id=ProductComponent File Id=HelloFile Name=HelloFile.txt Source=hello.txt / /Component /ComponentGroup /Fragment /Wix -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Edwin G. Castro -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
